What are the positive and negative effects of the ASEAN?

What were the positive and negative effects of the Trans-atlantic Slave Trade?

• Were there any positive effects of the Trans-atlantic Slave Trade at all? Thanks.

• Answer:

  Some societies flourished during the early modern times and benefited economically from the slave trade. Those Africans who raided, took captives, and sold slaves to Europeans profited handsomely from the trade, as did the port cities and the states that coordinated trade with European merchants. Asante, Dahomey, and Oyo peoples, for example, took advantage of the slave trade to obtain firearms from European merchants and build powerful states in West Africa. On the whole, Africa suffered serious losses from the slave trade. The Atlantic slave trade alone deprived African societies of about 16 million individuals. While diverting labor from Africa to other lands, the slave trade also distorted African sex ratios, since approximately two-thirds of all exported slaves were males. This sexual imbalance encouraged Africans to practice polygamy and forced women to take on duties that in earlier times had been the responsibility of men. Apart from its demographic and social effects, the slave trade also brought turmoil to African societies.